{"id":9379,"date":"2011-06-16T14:44:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9379"},"modified":"2011-06-16T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:44:27","slug":"second-fatality-of-nesting-season-an-old-friend-is-killed-on-lieutenant-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9379","title":{"rendered":"Second Fatality of Nesting Season; An Old Friend is Killed on Lieutenant Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-fatality-16-June-2011-002-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9382\" title=\"9018 fatality 16 June 2011 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-fatality-16-June-2011-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"9018 fatality 16 June 2011 002 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-fatality-16-June-2011-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-fatality-16-June-2011-002-480-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Female Terrapin #9018 Killed on Lieutenant Island<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Shortly after finding the first fatality of the 2011 nesting season, Turtle Journal&#8217;s Sue Wieber Nourse discovered a second smashed terrapin about a quarter mile down the road.\u00c2\u00a0 While all unnecessary turtle deaths are unfortunate, it seems a tragedy to find an old friend killed so carelessly and so cruelly.\u00c2\u00a0 This female terrapin, #9018, has been tracked by Turtle Journal since Don Lewis first found her nesting on Lieutenant Island on June 27th, 2004.\u00c2\u00a0 She has been almost a member of the family, a reliable friend whom we see each summer as she struggles upland to lay her nest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-nest.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9381\" title=\"9018 nest 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-nest-480.jpg\" alt=\"9018 nest 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-nest-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-nest-480-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Terrapin #9018 Nesting in June 2004<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">In fact, the photograph above records our first encounter with Terrapin #9018, just after she finished laying her nest and camouflaging its presence &#8230; immediately behind her tail in the image above.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-fatality-16-June-2011-004-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9388\" title=\"9018 fatality 16 June 2011 004 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-fatality-16-June-2011-004-480.jpg\" alt=\"9018 fatality 16 June 2011 004 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-fatality-16-June-2011-004-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/9018-fatality-16-June-2011-004-480-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Protecting Terrapin #9018&#8217;s Last Eggs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Today Sue was able to recover several undamaged eggs from her crushed body.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Sue carefully transported them to a very safe location where she dug a nest and covered it with a wire-cage predator excluder.\u00c2\u00a0 Under our watchful eyes, these eggs will incubate\u00c2\u00a0in the summer\u00c2\u00a0heat until they hatch sometime in mid to late August.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully, Turtle Journal will have a happier story to tell then, as the offspring of our friend Terrapin #9018 emerge from the sands of Lieutenant Island to take her place in the Wellfleet Bay population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female Terrapin #9018 Killed on Lieutenant Island Shortly after finding the first fatality of the 2011 nesting season, Turtle Journal&#8217;s Sue Wieber Nourse discovered a second smashed terrapin about a quarter mile down the road.\u00c2\u00a0 While all unnecessary turtle deaths are unfortunate, it seems a tragedy to find an old friend killed so carelessly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9393,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions\/9393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}